Do you have cold feet at night in winter? Well, I do. And to save my husbears calves ('cause that's where I put my ice cold feet against, at night) I love to put a hot water bottle in bed. That warms my poor cold feet right up! But, my hot water bottle has been wrapped in an old pillow cover for years. So unelegant. I gan do better than that! This could be so much more fun. So here it is: a tutorial...

Take a large sheet of paper, deflate your hot water bottle and put it flat on the paper. On both sides and the bottom, you draw 2.5 cm wider than the measurements of the hot water bottle. On the top you draw 3 cm extra. Now you drew a rectangle, but don't move your hot water bottle just yet! Draw 2 cm of the beginning of the 'neck' of your hot water bottle. This is important for later on.

Cut out the rectangle and place it on your fabric. Cut out two of the rectangles from your fat quarter and copy the 2 cm of the 'neck' on the wrong side of yout pattern pieces.

Take your two fabric scraps. Fold 1 cm of each short side to the wrong side of the fabric and press. Nou fold 1 cm of each long side to the wrong side of the fabric and press well with your iron. Now put one fabric strip on your sewing machine and take a large zig zag stitch. Zig zag each long side of the strip. Repeat for the second strip.

take your two pattern pieces. Now, you drew the 2 cm of the 'neck' on your pattern pieces, right? If not, do it now. Place the tunnel that you've just sewn right on top of the 2 cm part of the fabric and leave some room on both sides, at least 1 cm on each side. Sew the tunnel pieces (only the long sides of the tunnel piece) to your fabric and sew right along the edge of the tunnel piece. Repeat this for your other piece of fabric.

To create nice round corners, take a sandwich plate and draw nice round corners along the bottoms of both your rectangle fabric pieces. Cut them out.

Fold the round corners in two to find the middle and draw a line of 2.5 or 3 cm. If you like to fill up your water bottle: make it three. If you're a person who's happy with just a little warm water in the bottle, make it 2.5 cm.

Before you pin the two pieces together, it's wise to zigzag around both pattern pieces to keep the fabtic from fraying later. After that you pin the two fabric pieces right sides together (make sure the tunnels are on top of each other) and stitch all around, except at the 2 cm where the tunnels are!

Wanna use your biastape? Go for it! Fold it all the way open and place the top of the biastape along the top edge of the hot water bottle cover, right sides together. Pin all the way around and stitch. Then remove the pins and fold the tape over the edge to the wrong side. Now you have a pretty piece of tape on both sides! Stitch all around.

Stitching biastape is a rather precise job. I find that this tutorial is great if you haven't worked with biastape a lot. On Youtube there are also a lot of movies that will come in handy. But if you find this too difficult, don't worry. You can also do without biastape. Just fold about 1 cm of the edge to the wrong side and press firmly. Now just stitch along the edge.

Put a safety pin to the end of your ribbon and wriggle it through the tunnel. Make sure that 7 - 10 cm of the ribbon are on both sides of the cover when the ribbon is through. Now take your other ribbon and wriggle it trhough the other tunnel using the safety pin.

Doe je kruik in de kruikenzak.../ Place your hot water bottle in the cover...

Trek de lintjes aan.../ Pull the ribbons...

En je kruikenzak is klaar!/ And your hot water bottle cover is finished!

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